WEB SITE TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY STATEMENT(Last Revised on July 31, 2001) Welcome to The Institute of Living Web Site! Hartford Hospital provides The Institute of Living web site to you subject to the following Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. If you visit The Institute of Living web site, you agree to abide by these policies. Please read them carefully. Hartford Hospital reserves the right to make changes to this web site and to modify the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement at any time. Therefore, you should check these policies frequently to review the then-current policies because they are binding on you. Hartford Hospital offers the information on this web site for general information and educational purposes only. This information is not intended as medical advice and should not be used for diagnosis. Information on this web site is not intended to create any physician-patient relationship, nor should it be considered a replacement for consultation with a healthcare professional. If you have questions or concerns about your health, please contact your healthcare provider. Copyright and Trademark Information ©2001-2003 Hartford Hospital. All Rights Reserved. All content included on this site, such as text, graphics, logos, button icons, images, digital downloads, and software is the property of Hartford Hospital or its content suppliers and is protected by copyright laws. The compilation of all content on this site is the exclusive property of Hartford Hospital and is protected by copyright laws. All software used on this site is the property of Hartford Hospital or its software suppliers and protected by copyright laws. The Hartford Hospital logo is a registered trademark of Hartford Hospital. Hartford Hospital, Life Star, The Institute of Living and Jefferson House logos are service marks of Hartford Hospital. The product and service names profiled herein, including, but not limited to, "Health Questions? Ask Us" are proprietary marks of Hartford Hospital. All other brands and names are the property of their respective owners. License for Your Use of this Site Hartford Hospital grants you a limited, revocable and nonexclusive license to access and make personal use of this site and not to download (other than page caching) or modify it, or any portion of it, except with the express written consent of Hartford Hospital. This site or any portion of this site may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, sold, visited or otherwise exploited for commercial purposes without the express written consent of Hartford Hospital. You may not utilize framing to enclose any trademark, logo or other proprietary information contained on this site without express written consent. You may not use any meta tags or any other "hidden text" utilizing Hartford Hospital's name or trademarks without our express written consent. You are granted a limited, revocable, and nonexclusive right to create a hyperlink to the home page of this site so long as the link does not portray Hartford Hospital, its affiliates or its services in a false, misleading, derogatory, or otherwise offensive manner. You agree to use this site only for lawful purposes, and you acknowledge that your failure to do so may subject you to civil or criminal liability. You are responsible for ensuring that any materials you post to this site or a discussion area via email or otherwise does not violate the copyright, trademark, trade secret or other personal or proprietary rights of any third party. You agree not to disrupt, modify, or interfere with this site or its associated software, hardware and servers in any way and you agree not to impede or interfere with others' use of this web site. You further agree not to alter or tamper with any information or materials on or associated with this site. Any unauthorized use terminates the permission or license granted by Hartford Hospital. Use of Email Content Transmittal of emails to this web site may not be private. You grant Hartford Hospital and its designees the unrestricted right to use, reproduce, modify, translate, transmit and distribute any information or material you supply or communicate to the web site via such postings in any medium now in existence or hereafter developed for any purpose. Web Site Links This web site may provide links or references to other sites. Hartford Hospital cannot be held responsible for information, products or services obtained on such other sites and will not be liable for any damages arising from access to such sites. Any links to other sites are provided merely as a convenience to the visitors of this web site and any inclusion of such links in this web site does not imply an endorsement or warranty of the linked sites or their content, products or services. Visitors are cautioned that linked sites are governed by their own use and privacy policies, so visitors linking to such sites should make sure to visit the appropriate pages of those sites to determine what policies will apply. Disclaimer of Warranties and Limitation of Liability Hartford Hospital makes no representations or warranties about the suitability of these materials for any purpose. YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE USING THIS WEB SITE AT YOUR OWN RISK. THIS SITE IS PROVIDED BY HARTFORD HOSPITAL ON AN "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE" BASIS, AND WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. HARTFORD HOSPITAL DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE INFORMATION, TEXT, GRAPHICS, EMAIL RESPONSES, LINKS AND OTHER ITEMS CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE OR ON ANY OTHER SERVER. HARTFORD HOSPITAL DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THIS SITE, ITS SERVERS, OR EMAIL SENT FROM HARTFORD HOSPITAL ARE FREE FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. HARTFORD HOSPITAL SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND ARISING FROM THE USE OF THIS SITE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES. THE INFORMATION CONTAINED ON THIS WEB SITE AND IN ANY EMAIL RESPONSES FROM HARTFORD HOSPITAL TO YOU ARE INTENDED TO BE FOR GENERAL INFORMATION PURPOSES ONLY, ARE NOT CONFIDENTIAL, AND ARE NOT IN RESPONSE TO AN INDIVIDUAL'S ACTUAL OR POTENTIAL HEALTH PROBLEMS OR AN INDIVIDUAL'S PARTICULAR SET OF CIRCUMSTANCES. FURTHER, THIS INFORMATION SHOULD NOT BE USED AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR CONSULTING WITH YOUR PERSONAL PHYSICIAN. Applicable Law and Jurisdiction By visiting this web site, you agree that the Terms of Use and Privacy Statement for all purposes shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Connecticut, without regard to principles of conflict of laws, and that any action based on or alleging a breach of these provisions must be brought in a state or federal court located in the State of Connecticut. In addition, you agree to submit to the personal jurisdiction and venue of such courts. General Hartford Hospital may make changes to the information contained on this web site or the products and services described on this web site at any time. Hartford Hospital makes no commitment and undertakes no obligation to update the information contained herein. Hartford Hospital reserves the right to make changes to our Terms of Use and Privacy Statement at any time, without notice. If any of these provisions shall be deemed invalid, void or for any reason unenforceable, that provision shall be deemed severable and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provision. Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Statement describes the guidelines Hartford Hospital uses for protecting information you provide to us during your visit to this web site, subject to the provisions contained in our "Terms of Use." The Information We Collect and How We Use It Certain information is automatically collected when you visit our site. You may have read about "cookies," nuggets of information that are placed by a web site in a storage place on your own computer. The types of information we collect with cookies include the name of your Internet service provider, the web site that referred you to us (if any), the date and time our web site was accessed, the page or pages you visited, and your IP address. Our cookies do not contain information that is, in itself, personally identifying. In addition, we receive and store any information you enter on our web site or give us in any other way. For example, if you send us an email or fill out a form, you are transmitting the information that appears to you in the form or the message. This will typically include information like your name, address, email address, the kind of request you are making, and any other information necessary to fulfill your request. You never transmit any personally identifying information that you do not enter yourself. This information is used internally only for the purpose of fulfilling the request or for contacting you directly. The information we collect may be used for several purposes, for example, to improve the content of our web site, track activity on our site, develop new products or services, or respond to inquiries. We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services only for the purpose and only to the extent necessary to provide you with those services. There may also be occasions when we are legally required to provide access to our database in order to cooperate with investigations or other legal proceedings. In those instances, the information is provided only for that purpose. While your individual information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use aggregated, anonymous data about our visitors as a group for any business purpose, such as, without limitation, analyzing usage trends. Please note that Hartford Hospital will not intentionally share the contents of any email feedback or questions with any third party. However, due to the nature of electronic communications, we cannot and do not provide any assurances that the contents of your email will not become known or accessible to third parties. Please refer to our "Terms of Use" concerning additional policies relating to emails. Other than as outlined above, Hartford Hospital will not sell, trade or rent any personally identifying information we may collect on this web site to any third party without your permission. WE URGE YOU NOT TO PROVIDE ANY CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION ABOUT YOU OR YOUR HEALTH TO US VIA ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION. IF YOU DO SO, IT IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Web Site Links From time to time, we may provide additional links on our web site to resources you may find useful. These links will lead you to sites governed by different privacy policies. We wish to caution our visitors that they must take the responsibility for visiting the other web sites' privacy policies, as we have no control over information that is submitted to those sites. Please refer to our "Terms of Use" for additional information concerning links to other web sites. Questions/Comments? 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